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Message:: [QUOTE="Seattlite86, post: 3973331, member: 59737"]Please understand that the elitist comment had nothing to do with telling people to buy the coin not the slab. I fully support this statement. People should learn to grade before buying coins. That makes total sense. My elitist comment was in reference to the unfounded claim that people who started collecting before TPGs "truly learned how to grade", and also that hardly anyone knows how to grade today. It's an attempt at virtue signaling by saying "only we know how to grade, everyone else is stupid". Medoraman said collectors today cannot even grade anymore and said it's really sad. I called him out on it, and he changed his tune, rightfully so. I think the problem is that folks think somehow just because slabs exist, that people who would beforehand have cared to learn will suddenly be lazy. There's also the belief that somehow because there weren't slabs before, the lazy people bothered to learn about grading. There have always been, and will always be, people who care and learn, and people who choose not to. The fact that slabs exist doesn't change this. People who bemoan slabs as ruining numismatics, or outright claim collectors today can't grade, but swear their generation had it right, are discounting and turning up their nose at their fellow collectors.[/QUOTE]